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Telltale, Universal Announce Law & Order: L.A. the Game

New episodic game series based on the television show coming this year.

If you thought developer Telltale Games' plate was full with Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, The Walking Dead, Fables, and King's Quest games on its schedule... you were right. That's a heaping helping of design work. But the studio is hungry for even more and has announced it will give the episodic game treatment to yet another big name franchise: TV cop drama Law & Order.

In partnership with NBC Universal, Telltale Games announced Law & Order: L.A. will transform the crime solving and interrogation of the television show into an episodic game series for Windows, Mac OS, and consoles.

"Law & Order: L.A. fits very well with the style of episodic entertainment experiences Telltale has been building since our very first days," said Telltale co-founder and CEO Dan Connors. "The talents and skills that we've been building at Telltale are ideally suited for the structure and storytelling approach of televised procedurals like Law & Order."

Further details on Law & Order: L.A. the game were not provided, but Telltale promised more news will be coming soon. The game is currently penciled in for launch sometime this year.

Sharkey says: Damn you, Law & Order, for sucking me into lengthy late night viewing sessions on cable when all I want to do is shut my eyes and sleep. Damn you! Seriously, though, for a small studio, Telltale Games is very quickly establishing itself as a big player in an uber competitive industry. Looking forward to more adult games from the studio with Law & Order and The Walking Dead.